Improved washing and wringing machine



' UNITED STATES PATENT GEFICE.-

JOHN HEWIT OF OABMIGHAEL, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED WASHING AND WPtlNGING MACHINE.

Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 39,917, dated September 15, 1863.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN HEWIT, of Carmichael, in the county of Greene and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Washing and Wringing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters inthe several figures indicating the same parts, and in which drawings- Figure 1 is a plan viewof my improved Washing and wringing machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section thereof in the line w, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a cross-section in the lineg/ y, Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A indicates the wash-box or containing-vessel for the clothes to be washed and Wrun g, and serves asa supportingframe for the operative parts of the machine. Midway of its length pressurerolls B B are sustained in position, as represented in Fig. 3, the axis of the lower roll, B', passing through the sides of the vessel A and receiving support in stationary uprights c c, let into or set in vertical channels or grooves cut in the interior portion of the sides of said vessel. lhe upper pressure-roller, B, as will be seen by reference to Fig. 3, is supported in vertical slides d d, the axis ofsaid roller being so connected therewith, as indicated, that the roller and the slides d simultaneously rise and fall during the operation ofthe machine. As shown in Fig. 2, the slides d are reduced at their top so as to form projecting pins d', which pass through a hole in the springs E E, the end of the springs opposite their perforated portion for the reception of the slides d being fixed stationary at the point d2 to the top of the sides of the vessel A, While said perforated ends are at liberty to articulate with the slides d. The springs E, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, are of elliptic form, so that a hand pressure-bar, f, may be slid back and forth upon the springs at pleasure. This bar f is supported by movable uprights g g, attached to the outside of the vessel A, as indicated, said uprights being held in place by screws or pinsp to the sides of the vessel in such manner as to permit the uprights to articulate upon the pins h according as the handbar j' is drawn forward or back upon the springs E. Screw-nuts, as at i i', Figui-5, may be applied to the upper extremities of the uprights g, to retain the hand-bar thereon, and at the same time regulate the maximum pressure of the springs E upon the roller B. It Will thus be seen that when the hand-bar fis once adjusted by the nutsi asingle forward movement of the hand-bar upon the springs will impartan equal pressure to them, which in turn is transmitted to the roller B, and that the withdrawal of the hand-bar from its position, as shown in Fig. 2, will simultaneously relieve the springs.

As shown in Fig. 2, the end piece, A', of the containing-vessel does not extend to the top of said vessel, but, as in said figure, is made to support the outer end ot' an inclined bedpiece, G, said bed-piece beingl also supported in the position indicated in Fig. 2 by cleats attached in a proper manner to the inner sides of the vessel A. -The bed-piece G may thus at pleasure be Withdrawn, as indicated in red lines in Fig. 1, and is intended tobe so withdrawn and held in the position indicated in said figure by pins ll, projecting from the sides of the containing-vessel, in which position said bed-piece serves the purpose of a table upon which the clothes to be Washed may be placed preparatory to such operation, or upon Which they may be placed immediatel y after they have been subjected to pressure for such purpose between the rollers B B.

After the clothes have been washed in the manner customary in this class of machines, the bed-piece G, having the Washed clothes removed therefrom, is then adjusted from the position indicated in red lines, Fig. 1, into the position shown in Fig. 2, whereupon the clothes are then passed in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2, between the rollers, and are delivered up over the inclined bed-piece G, into a basket or other receptacle beneath the rear end of said bed-piece, outside ofthe machine. In this operation the washed clothes are wrung7 at the same time they are delivered over the face of the bed-piece by the action of the rollers-the inclined position of the piece G at the same time allowing any dripping7 from the clothes to pass down into the body of the vessel A.

The rollers BB may be clothed with indiarubber or other suitable elastic substance, in u the usual manner, and may be provided with a fly-wheel, as at H, to receive a belt, in case the `machine is to be driven by other than hand-power. Frictionindia-rubberrolls,as at h hf, are to be applied to the shafts of the pressurerollers, so that rotation may beimparted from the lower to the upper pressureroll when very light articles are passed through the machine.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 i claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination of the handbarfwith the springs E, slides d, and roller B, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. The removable inclined bed-piece G, in combination with the containing-vessel A and rollers B B', substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN HEWIT.

Witnesses:

THOMAS LAIDLEY, J r., WM. HARTMAN. 

